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June 7, 2012Objectification
The following are philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s criteria for objectification, that is, the act of treating a person as an object:
instrumentality: the treatment of a person as a tool for the objectifier’s purposes;
denial of autonomy: the treatment of a person as lacking in autonomy and self-determination;
inertness: the treatment of a person as lacking in agency, and perhaps also in activity;
fungibility: the treatment of a person as interchangeable with other objects;
violability: the treatment of a person as lacking in boundary-integrity;
ownership: the treatment of a person as something that is owned by another (can be bought or sold);
denial of subjectivity: the treatment of a person as something whose experiences and feelings (if any) need not be taken into account.
To which Professor Rae Langton, MIT, adds the following:
reduction to body: the treatment of a person as identified with their body, or body parts;
reduction to appearance: the treatment of a person primarily in terms of how they look, or how they appear to the senses;
silencing: the treatment of a person as if they are silent, lacking the capacity to speak.
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What is objectification, anyway?
The following are philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s criteria for objectification, that is, the act of treating a person as an object: instrumentality: the treatment of a person as a tool for th…
